Fengyun Ni, Jianpeng Ma and Xiaorui Chen, Rice University (IMAGE)

Rice University

Fengyun Ni, Jianpeng Ma and Xiaorui Chen, Rice University

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These are members of a team from Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine that deciphered the 3-D structure of actin nucleation, a critical but fleeting process that takes place thousands of times per second in each cell of the body.

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Jeff Fitlow/Rice University

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